FH5, Series 48, Week 1

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Finally daylight returns after a month of unnecessary darkness.

I did manage to do last week’s treasure hunt when a wreckage skills HA eventually appeared. I noticed this morning that I had 104K FPs, having acquired 2,000 more from the gods alone know where. Oh well, I suppose it’s Forza counting again.

I randomly completed the treasure hunt in the Holden Torana by driving over bumpy bits of Mexico.

The weekly was in the Honda S2000CR which, I think, was still set up from the last time this weekly came up. I switched it back to RWD until the final task when I had to swap it to RWD or be doomed to end up spinning round in circles.

I one-shotted the first ST for a rubbish SWS. I then one-shotted the second ST for a one-third good SWS. The SZ took me a couple of attempts as ever, but the SWS was one-third good and one-third very good.

Rivals week again, but four events, not two.

Eventlab (1). Mink Creek Circuit. Good use of props to emulate natural terrain. Layout is all right, albeit a little squeezed. Good choice of car class where less discerning creators would’ve had us in S1- or S2-class cars. The SWS was rubbish.

Eventlab (2). Jumbo Jangle Juggernaut. I went with the Lotus 2-Eleven for this one, which is a long circuit. It’s marred by the reverse turns at the roundabout, which is poor mimicry of Suzuka (possibly not the creator’s intention). The reward was a horn. Thankfully, it wasn’t something annoying. No, wait, it was something annoying.

Eventlab (3). Jungle Rally Circuit. I randomly chose the M-Sport Fiesta for this race, not realising that the reward was the same car. I have five of them. Yes, five. I need to be a little more active in deleting duplicates.

I got a wreckage skills HA at just the right moment. No long wait. Also, this is the lazy bloke’s HA when I have to use a particular car or can’t be bothered drifting.

I got the HW PR stunt after a couple of attempts. I lost momentum in the first and had to make some adjustments to the car. I wondered afterwards whether you’re meant to engine swap the car and make almost no further alterations.

The Trial became a bit of a nuisance as I sensed it might because sprint races + cheaty drivatars = irritation. I quit my first attempt because it was clear that we weren’t going to win. I then repeated Aerodromo several times over because incompetent clowns kept shoving me into walls or slightly off the track so that I got slowed by fences. We lost Aerodromo. What? Yes, of course I came 1st. The team normally does when I come 1st. In Gran Pantano, I managed a 3rd from the back row and we won. I was at the back for Vista del Mar and came 4th for another team win and my third 488 Pista.

No need to do any seasonals this week. I don’t really give a damn about which series comes next; nor do I care about which pair of cars gets voted into the Backstage Pass shop. Either pair’s good. But I’m sure the autistic boys on the forum will be screaming why this series or that series is better even though none of this matters a jot. really, PGG ought to have restarted from Series 1 and have been done with it instead of this pointless voting lark.

I’ve given up on Horizon Tours for the moment as I kept making myself do events when my heart wasn’t in it and kept making mistakes.

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